![]() ![]() That's why sometimes instead of having one big battle with a lot of reinforcements, it seems that the AI will favor having three consecutive battles (that's what happened, more or less, when I faced the 40 000 moghuls). The only thing that I regret is that the AI doesn't handle the reinforcements very well, sometimes I've had them just throw them at me, one regiment after the other. They will flank you, outmaneouvre your firing lines, they will charge your infantry before you get the time to activate a square formation, they'll fake a retreat in order to catch your pursuing soldiers isolated and offguard, things can get out of control really fast, especially when outnumbered, which I always was against the indians (my main opponent throughout the campaign). In the maximum difficulty setting, the AI will effectively manage a 40 units army in real time with a strategy in mind. I strongly suggest that you put the slider up to maximum difficulty in battle, because the other difficulties are not nearly as rewarding. I've had a few naval battles in Rome 2, but never one enjoyable. This is something that is really missing from Rome 2, where having a fleet is almost completely useless because of automatic transport galleys and unrewarding because the sea trade is not lucrative enough (and not influenced by the size of your fleet). When you add the fact that in order to reach America or India, you need a fleet, and that trade is extremely lucrative, so much that countries like britain or the united provinces will bankrupt if blockaded, a fleet is always core to your strategy. ![]() When you win a naval battle, you get to capture the boats that are not destroyed (happens, but rarely), meaning that victory and defeats are extremely important, I got the british second rate boat while I had none and used it against them. It happened in the Carribean when my atlantic fleet escaped from the superior british navy in europe, and was intercepted by a fleet of the same size, which had the biggest boat of the whole world at the time, the HMS Minerva. The biggest victory I had in the whole campaign was a naval victory. While in other games they might seem useless and for flavor only, they are extremely important and useful in Empire. This first war wasn't even half as bloody as the next. I barely won that battle, reaching an all time low of 550 men and half my army destroyed, and got the indians to sign a peace treaty at the end of the turn. They were all elite by now and had seen horrors. In the last battle, I only had 1200 men left from the 9500 I had originally. I fought three battles during the same turn, and I miraculously took Mysore the next one, I now had to defend it against yet another attack. The battle started, they attacked me, and I fought for hours. Much to my surprise Between Mysore and my army stood 40 000 (!) Moghul soldiers, and another 14 000 men strong army of Maratha was waiting behind them. My goal was to capture Mysore, and then proceed north. I landed 9500 elite french soldiers, with a lot of experience and some elite units. ![]() I first captured Ceylon as an outpost, and proceded to invade the south of India. To give a real example of the scale in the 1760's I was forced to go back to India because the Moghul and the Maratha confederacy declared war on me after I had previously sold my territories there, and they started to mess with my trade routes. ![]()
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